Red China: Who Needs Pants?

Peking last week publicly admitted that
Red China will not have its long-promised nuclear bomb for a long time
to come. Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi conceded that economic
troubles and the quarrel with the Russians (who withdrew their
technicians and broke an atomic-aid treaty) have seriously delayed
Peking's atomic program. It would be "several years," Chen told
visiting Japanese correspondents, before the regime could even test a
crude atom bomb.

But China is far from giving up its nuclear ambitions. Some time ago,
Khrushchev warned that any country trying to build a bomb without
adequate resources might lose its pants....